Sally Mann

Sally Mann started taking pictures one day when she saw her daughter's face as it looked like it had been beaten; Sally saw this as art. She loved taking pictures of her children in many different aspects, but usually they were all nude and sometimes very dirty looking. Other than portraits, she liked taking landscape pictures and of people in front of landscapes. When she was young, she always had to get her way, but her parents were very strict. Her father was an interesting man who made awkward sculptures, but never did anything with it. Along with her children and landscapes, she took a lot of pictures of her husband and her dogs.

Her husband was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and Sally was in complete denial about it because he meant everything to her. Once, they received a phone call from the police saying there was a loose prisoner and he was supposedly on their property. Sally's husband sighted him and shot him in the hip, but it didn't kill him so the prisoner ended up shooting himself.

Sally had one dog that was a big part of her life and when he died, she kept his remains until it was completely gone and rotted away except for one paw claw.

She had a show at the Pace Gallery about her photos dealing with death that she took at an anthropology center. Unfortunately, her show was canceled.